An action is something as simple as an intent with accompanying data, that is, a message. How does an action come about though? An action comes about when a user interacts with a UI. The user may select a specific item in a list or a press a button with the intention of submitting a form. Submitting the form should, in turn, lead to a product being created.
Let's look at two different actions:
- Selecting an item in a list, here we are interested in saving the index of our selected item
- Saving a todo to a todo list
An action is represented by an object. The object has two properties of interest:
- The type: This is a unique string that tells us the intention of the action, for example, SELECT_ITEM
- The data: This ...